Demi Lovato said she couldn’t go 30 minutes without cocaine when she was 18.

The singer recently told Access Hollywood, “Something I’ve never talked about before, but with my drug use I could hide it to where I would sneak drugs. I couldn’t go 30 minutes to an hour without cocaine and I would bring it on airplanes. I would smuggle it basically and just wait until everyone in first class would go to sleep and I would do it right there. I’d sneak to the bathroom and I’d do it.”

I’m no lawyer, but isn’t it illegal to take cocaine onto an airplane? Maybe that law doesn’t apply when one isn’t technically on the ground.

The former Disney star, now 21 and sober, abruptly withdrew from the Jonas Brothers’ Live in Concert tour in October 2010 to enter a treatment center for “physical and emotional issues” when she was 18, according to E! News. Even then, she said she was still reluctant to accept help.

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“That’s how difficult it got and that was even with somebody (with me),” Lovato said. “I had a sober companion, somebody who was watching me 24/7 and living with me (and) I was able to hide it from them as well.”

She said she hit rock bottom at the age of 19.

“I was going to the airport and I had a Sprite bottle just filled with vodka and it was just 9 in the morning and I was throwing up in the car and this was just to get on a plane to go back to L.A. to the sober living house that I was staying at,” said the “X Factor” judge. “I had all the help in the world, but I didn’t want it. When I hit that moment I was like, it’s no longer fun when you’re doing it alone. I’ve really never talked about this stuff before … I don’t know if I should be sharing this.”